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Dominique Morisseau was born on 13 March, 1978 in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., is an American actor and playwright (born 1978). Discover Dominique Morisseau's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 46 years old?

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Occupation Playwright, Actor
Age 46 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 13 March, 1978
Birthday 13 March
Birthplace Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1978

Dominique Morisseau (born March 13, 1978) is an American playwright and actress from Detroit, Michigan.

2000

She attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she received her BFA in Acting in 2000.

There she met J. Keys, who is also from Michigan.

2012

After college, in 2012 and 2013, she received a Playwrights of New York (PoNY) fellowship at the Lark Play Development Center.

She has also worked as a Teaching Artist with City University of New York's Creative Arts Team.

Morisseau has said that music plays a huge part in her work and often informs the work that she is writing.

"It's a resource and clue to my work, and music plays a unifier among cultural barriers."

For this play, Morisseau received the L. Arnold Weissberger Award in 2012.

The final play in the cycle revolves around a group of auto-plant workers grappling with the likely possibility of foreclosure and impending unemployment.

Skeleton Crew received a developmental production at the Lark Play Development Center.

2013

They married in 2013.

Keys was born in Detroit but grew up in Southfield, Michigan, a nearby suburb of the city.

He works as a music industry promoter, emcee and hip hop musician.

Morisseau began her performance career as a live poetry speaker, primarily in her hometown community of Harmonie Park in Detroit.

After graduating from college, she continued acting and worked with several organizations.

At the Lark Play Development Center, she worked as an actor in a workshop production of The Mountaintop by Katori Hall, developing the role of Camae.

In 2013, in a production at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, she reprised the role of Camae.

She continues acting but has said that she would not act in any of her plays' premieres.

Morisseau began writing plays in college.

She has said that the lack of suitable roles at the University of Michigan drove her to write plays and create the roles she wanted to perform.

She wrote The Blackness Blues: Time to Change the Tune, A Sister's Story at this time.

2014

It was nominated for eight AUDELCO Theatre Awards and received the 2014 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History.

Former musician Blue decides to sell his beloved jazz club in order to live out his dreams.

He is left with the moral dilemma of leaving his partner, Pumpkin, and his loyal jazz band behind.

2015

Morisseau was on the list of Top 20 Most Produced Playwrights in America in 2015–16, with 10 productions of her plays nationwide.

Morisseau is a story editor for the television series Shameless on Showtime and is also credited as a co-producer.

She wrote the book for the jukebox musical Ain't Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations, which is directed by Des McAnuff.

Morisseau developed this play first at Williamstown Theatre Festival, where it eventually had its world premiere in July 2015.

Paradise Blue continued its development at the McCarter Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, and the Signature Theatre Company.

2017

It played pre-Broadway engagements at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre (2017), the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles (August to September 2018), and the Kennedy Center (July 2018).

This play marked Morisseau's Broadway debut.

She received a nomination for a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, the third Black woman to do so.

Morisseau has written a three-play cycle, titled The Detroit Project. The three plays (in order) are:

This play "explores an explosive and decisive moment in a great American city. The play's compelling characters struggle with racial tension and economic instability."

It was developed and workshopped at The Public Theater in New York.

Detroit '67 eventually was featured at the Classical Theatre of Harlem with the National Black Theatre.

2018

She has written more than nine plays, three of which are part of a cycle titled The Detroit Project. She received a MacArthur Fellowship (also known as the 'Genius Grant') in 2018.

Morisseau was born and grew up in Detroit, Michigan, with her mother and father.

Her mother's family is from Mississippi and her father's family is from Haiti.

2019

The musical opened on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre in March 2019.